Opera 34 Dev Adds Linux Proprietary Codecs Support, Brings Back NPAPI, More | Linux Today

Opera 34 Dev Adds Linux Proprietary Codecs Support, Brings Back NPAPI, More

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Marius Nestor
Oct 20, 2015

Based on Chromium 47, Opera 34 Build 2023.0 brings all sort of goodies for Linux, Windows, and Mac users. Let’s start with the Linux features, as this developer build of the Opera 34 web browser introduces support for proprietary codecs. Some modifications have been made to the code for detecting if the chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra package is installed or not in your GNU/Linux distribution.

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Marius Nestor

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